May 2025 Election Results
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The May 2025 election results are finalized! This spring, Oregon Futures Lab & Color PAC endorsed almost 30 candidates across 9 counties in Oregon. Out of the 28 candidates OFL & Color PAC endorsed this spring, 24 won their races, resulting in an 85% win rate. Whether school board, parks and recreation, or community college, we are proud to have worked with an amazing group of leaders running for local office.
Throughout this election season, OFL & Color PAC offered coordination for an ecosystem of progressive organizations, as well as direct campaign support, and we worked to equip our leaders with tools they need to have healthy experiences on the campaign trail. OFL organized the first-ever School Board Switchboard, a centralized intake process for endorsement applications. Over 60 candidates submitted the Switchboard form, and we had 13 organizational partners participate. To supplement the School Board Switchboard, OFL and partners hosted the School Board Candidate Fair: a space for endorsing organizations to share about their work and their priorities, and candidates running in school board races to learn about the multitude of organizations who do school board work throughout the state. In addition, OFL also co-convened a table with over a dozen partners to coordinate support for school board races across the state of Oregon.
OFL works to be responsive to our communities’ needs through eliciting feedback and reviewing data. With those findings in mind, OFL organized a series of trainings to equip our candidates with skills to be successful. Over the course of two months, OFL organized curriculum on campaign committees and compliance with Monica Santoyo, we brought in fundraising experts from ActBlue to train our candidates on digital fundraising, and organized a training on volunteer recruitment and mobilization with our friends at the Oregon Working Families Party. Based on our Ambassador Report, we’ve learned that BIPOC leaders need transparent conversations about the cost of public leadership, as well as a prioritization of safety. To address these needs, OFL shared information about the cost of running for office, and organized a training with Democracy Security Project to inform our candidates about how to minimize risk in physical and cyber spaces.
This is just the start - for our newly-elected leaders, we will also be providing governance trainings this summer. Keeping with tradition, OFL will be working to bring Progressive Governance Academy, a collaborative effort by re:power Fund, State Innovation Exchange (SiX) and Local Progress Impact Lab, to our new leaders.
Win or lose, we are so grateful for all the work our candidates have done for our communities! We would like to thank and celebrate the following candidates:
Benton County
✅Shauna Tominey, Corvallis 509J School Board, Position 5
✅Luhui Whitebear, Corvallis 509J School Board, Position 4
✅Dr. Sami Al-Abdrabbuh, Corvallis 509J School Board, Position 1
Clackamas County
✅Neelam Gupta, Lake Oswego School Board, Position 2
✅Samantha Tamtreng, North Clackamas School Board, Position 5
Deschutes County
✅Amanda Page, Redmond School District 2J, Position 3
✅Marcus LeGrand, Bend-La Pine School Board, Zone 2
✅Kina Chadwick, Ben-La Pine School Board, Zone 7
Hood River County
✅Monica Romero, Hood River School Board, At-Large
Lane County
✅Maya Rabasa, Eugene School Board 4J, Position 6
✅Jesse Maldonado, Lane Community College, Zone 7
❤️Angelo Arredondo Baca, Salem Keizer School Board, Zone 3
Multnomah County
✅José Gamero-Georgeson, David Douglas School Board, Position 7
✅Michael Reyes, Reynolds School Board, Position 3
❤️Jorge Sanchez Bautista, Portland Public School Board, Zone 5
✅Rashelle Chase-Miller, Portland Public School Board, Zone 4
❤️Herman Greene, Portland Public School Board, Zone 4
✅Jessica Arzate, Multnomah Education Service District, Position 4
✅Amanda Squiemphen-Yazzie, Multnomah Education Service District, Position 1
❤️Erica Fuller, Multnomah Education Service District, Position 2
✅William Miller, Mt. Hood Community College, Zone 2
Washington County
✅Pradnya Patil, Tualatin Hills Parks & Rec, Position 1
✅Alfredo Moreno, Tualatin Hills Parks & Rec, Position 2
✅Dr. Vân Truong, Beaverton School Board, Zone 1
✅Syed Qasim, Beaverton School Board, Zone 5
Clackamas County
✅Yessica Hardin Mercado, Hillsboro School Board, Position 1
✅Crystal Weston, Tigard Tualatin School Board, Position 5
✅David Jaimes, Tigard Tualatin School Board, Position 1
Thank you to our BIPOC leaders for working to represent our communities!
